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Interestingly enough...
I raised up a Scrafty to level 100. But now I honestly feel like it was a waste of time. He's one of my weaker level 100s, and I would never use him on a competitive team unless there was some sort of strategy involving him.

Hmm... Simisear was pretty disappointing on my first runthrough of Black. I later replaced it with Chandelure.

Zoroark was also a bit weak compared to the rest of my team in another Black file. Besides having a Speed-reducing nature and learning mostly physical and support moves, she really couldn't take any hits. My Galvantula in White had a similar problem with being frail and underpowered.

Musharna wasn't exactly disappointing, but it is hard to use with its slow speed.

I don't think I've yet to have a wholly disappointing Pokemon in my team thus far. During my first playthrough I used . It was more of a trial run where I picked my team based on looks. I went for the right nature and ability for all of them but did not bother with any proper EV training. The weakest link then was probably Vanilluxe, since it was only good against Dragon types, while Ground, Grass and Flying type can be covered by Galvantula and Serperior. And Ice type is naturally not a very defensive type so it was more of a struggle than usual. And ironically I struggled with Ghetsis because Vanilluxe was outsped and KOed by his Hydreigon, otherwise Ice Beam would have done its job.

On my second run though, oh boy, it was a like an all-star team (for in-game use), . Before I started out a new game I decided on my team first, and then looked up Bulbapedia for their base stats, chose the moveset they should have using some of Smogon's information also EV trained all of them. Even Crustle, which was the weakest in terms of stats, did its job well. Did I mention that I was playing Set mode instead of Shift mode as well?

I see a lot of people posting Serperior here. I'm not sure what your Serperior uses, but mine's SpA/Spd EVed, given Giga Drain/Leech Seed/Reflect/Lightscreen and holding Light Clay. Pretty much the leader of my team, provides great team support and has little issues with getting KOed.

Some of the Pokemon you guys mentioned have piqued my interest though, I think I'll try using them when I have the chance to, unless it's one that I personally dislike of course. And it also helps if you post the moveset of the Pokemon you were disappointed with and its fellow team members, since it might be a result of bad overall strategy and coverage.

Last edited by Hidden Power; 10th August 2012 at 9:28 PM.

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I guess I'll jump on the Purrloin/Liepard bandwagon. The first time you play it you're like wow this purple cat thing looks awesome I'm going to use it! and then you realize it's damage dealt:damage taken ratio is horrid. Zoroark and Bisharp were up there too simply because they were made of paper.

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I must say that I'm a little disappointed in Zoroark. I mean yeah, it's cool and all, but everyone made it out to be so much more. Everyone makes it seem like some kind of behemoth, while to me, it seemed like a standard dark type with the quick of it's ability.
Or, maybe I'm using it wrong.

even if we don't understand each other, that's not a reason to reject each other. There are two sides to any argument. Is there one point of view that has all the answers? Give it some thought.

^ This is the reason why I like arguing. If I come off as standoffish or overly angry in an argument, don't worry. I'm probably having the time of my life. Whether I agree with them or not, the pokemon fandom has a lot of different opinions, and I love how nobody is afraid to share them.

I'm very disappointed in Carracosta. It seems weak and fragile compared to the rest of my team, if with the power-up of Shell Smash.

....of course it becomes fragile, Shell Smash increases offense and speed at the cost of defenses.......if you still use Carracosta for stalling even after a Shell Smash, then you're doing it wrong. You'll be better with Curse instead.

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Another bad one I didn't like was Lillipup...that Pokemon just sucked in my eyes.

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Purrloin. The kitty only got the looks, it stats, moves and requirement of loads of exp points to level up were absolutely ridiculous. And barely improved after evolving. I box'ed it immediately.

I had a zorua and he was EXTREMELY hard to train because of his lame movepool and poor stats (his special attacks are good but what use for them if he couldn't learn any good moves?) After evolving, even with psychical moves he turned into a beast! There's a huge power boost after evolving! It's just too bad I only got to use his full potential after he learned his first special move: shadow ball (roll eyes)

Oh yeah, archeops too. Though I managed to make use of the horrible ability with Endeavor.

I rather like watchog. Illuminate + SuperFang + Hypnosis = lots of pokemon caught Other than that I didn't find much use for him though. poor thing

Well I can't stand them so no reason why I have to suffer to train Patrat first. Any pokemon can be used to catch other pokemon.
Yanno, the funny side, I got shiny Watchdog as my one n only random shiny among 4 B/W games I own so far. :/ The game knows how to play games on you, huh?

....of course it becomes fragile, Shell Smash increases offense and speed at the cost of defenses.......if you still use Carracosta for stalling even after a Shell Smash, then you're doing it wrong. You'll be better with Curse instead.

That's not what I meant. I know what Shell Smash does. Carracosta seems fragile even before a smash.